"Mark Twain House The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. It was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan has called it ""part steamboat, part medieval fortress and part cuckoo clock."" Clemens wrote many of his best-known works while living there, including ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"", ""The Prince and the Pauper"", ""Life on the Mississippi"", ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", ""A Tramp Abroad"", and ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."" Poor"
"century, when it began to be used alongside the classical form Marcus. In the Celtic legend of Tristan and Isolde this was the name of a king of Cornwall. It was also borne by the American author Mark Twain (1835–1910), real name Samuel Clemens, the author of 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn'. He actually took his pen name from a call used by riverboat workers on the Mississippi River to indicate a depth of two fathoms. This is also the usual English spelling of the name of the 1st-century BC Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Mark (name) Mark is"
"his epic poem about his New Jersey hometown, ""Paterson"", Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Langston Hughes, in addition to many others. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast – in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir ""Life on the Mississippi"" and the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". Twain's style – influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous"
"John Marshall Clemens John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father of author Mark Twain. Clemens was the scion of a Virginia family that owned both land and slaves in that state. The Clemenses were a Cornish American family originally from Looe in Cornwall, Great Britain. He was born in Campbell County, Virginia, the eldest Clemens. He was named after U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. His father died in 1805, whereupon the family moved to Kentucky. Pamela Clemens remarried in 1809, and John Clemens started working at age 11, as a clerk at an iron"
"his pen name than his real name. One famous example of this is Samuel Clemens writing under the pen name Mark Twain. British mathematician Charles Dodgson, who wrote fantasy novels under the pen name Lewis Carroll and mathematical treatises under his own name, refused to open letters addressed to him as ""Lewis Carroll"". Some authors, such as Harold Robbins, use several literary pseudonyms. Some pen names have been used for long periods, even decades, without the author's true identity being discovered, such as Elena Ferrante and Torsten Krol. Some pen names are not strictly pseudonyms, as they are simply variants"
"political risks from individuals, groups or states that disagree with them); or to make their name better suit another language. Examples of well-known writers who used a pen name include: George Eliot (1819–1880), whose real name was Mary Anne (or Marian) Evans; George Orwell (1903–1950), whose real name was Eric Blair; George Sand (1804–1876), whose real name was Lucile Aurore Dupin; Dr. Seuss (1904–1991), whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel; Stendhal (1783–1842), whose real name was Marie-Henri Beyle and Mark Twain (1835–1910), whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Apart from the large numbers of works attributable only to"
"pen name Mark Twain. The name Samuel is popular among Black Africans, as well as among African Americans. It is also widespread among the modern Jewish communities, especially Sephardic Jews. It is also quite popular in countries that speak English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese, as well as Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Samuel may refer to: (see also: Sam, Sammy, etc.) Samuel (name) Samuel (Sometimes spelled ""Samual"") is a male given name and a surname of Hebrew origin meaning either ""name of God"" or ""God has heard"" (שם האלוהים ""Shem HaElohim"") (שמע אלוהים ""Sh'ma"
"(1835–1910), also known as Mark Twain. Olivia, who was originally from a wealthy family in Elmira, New York, and Twain lived in Buffalo from 1869 to 1871 where Twain owned a stake in the ""Buffalo Express"" newspaper and worked as an editor and writer. Together, John and Harriet had three children together, all born in Washington D.C.: Raymond King Albright, Ruth Albright, and Langdon Albright. In 1895, Susan Fuller (1868–1928) was brought to Buffalo to educate the three Albright children. In March 1897, within two years of her arrival in Buffalo, 28-year-old Susan (daughter of Eben and Nancy Fuller) married"
"one day he would write a book about his English friend, and it is believed that the character of ""Hucklebury Finn"" was the result - with ""Finn"" being a reference to the blade or oar which Stanley used to achieve his greatest real-life successes. Mark Twain was, for a time, a mining prospector in Nevada, U.S., where, in Pershing county in that state, exist areas called Muttlebury Mines, Muttlebury Well and Muttlebury Springs. These areas are likely to have been named after one or other of Stanley's seven paternal uncles who, settling originally in what is now southern Ontario, Canada,"
"Jean Clemens Jane Lampton ""Jean"" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24, 1909) was the youngest of the three daughters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. On Christmas Eve 1909, Clemens drowned in a bathtub at her father's home after an apparent seizure. Clemens was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the youngest of four children born to author and humorist Mark Twain and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. The couple's first child, a son named Langdon, died of diphtheria at age 19 months. She had two older sisters: Susy"
"Richard Llewellyn Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn (), was a British novelist. Llewellyn was born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex, in 1906. Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St Davids, West Wales, was false. In the U.S., Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. He lived a peripatetic life, travelling widely throughout his life. Before World War II, he spent periods working in hotels,"
"Charles Eric Maine David McIlwain (21 January 1921 – 30 November 1981) better known by his pen name, Charles Eric Maine, was an English writer best known for several science fiction serials published in the 1950s and 1960s. He also wrote detective thrillers under the pen names Richard Rayner and Robert Wade. Maine was born in Liverpool, England on 21 January 1921. His writing career began with publishing three issues of a science fiction magazine called ""The Satellite"" which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke. From 1940 to 1941, he published his own magazine, called ""Gargoyle"". During World War"
"as the novelist, travel writer, and essayist Mark Twain. Here he has lost his family's valuable land in Tennessee (as it is now part of an enemy nation). He settles down with his family in San Francisco where he becomes the editor of the ""San Francisco Morning Call"", and is known for his very sarcastic war editorials in the 1880s during the Second Mexican War. His home is burned by British soldiers on their way to steal from the San Francisco Mint, and he is briefly suspected of being an enemy agent until Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman meets with him"
"the 1870s with the works of Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast—in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884). Twain's style changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. Henry James (1843–1916) was a major American novelist of the late"
"Susy Clemens Olivia Susan ""Susy"" Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896), was the second child and oldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. She inspired some of her father's works, wrote her own biography of him that Twain later published as part of his autobiography, and acted as a literary critic. Her father was heartbroken when she died of spinal meningitis at age twenty-four. Her biography of her father was published in 1988 in its entirety as ""Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain"", a volume"
"describes the competition from railroads, and the new, large cities, and adds his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain, the book is the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript. Twain did not, however, use the typewriter himself. His secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, typed from Twain's manuscript. In 1980, the book was adapted as a TV movie for American public television, with David Knell performing as Sam Clemens (Mark Twain's real name), and Robert"
"Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. The story line was written by Cindy Lovell and is narrated by Garrison Keillor with Clint Eastwood performing as Twain and Angela Lovell performing as Susy. Susy Clemens Olivia Susan ""Susy"" Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896), was the second child and oldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. She inspired some of her father's works, wrote her own biography of him that Twain later published as part of his autobiography, and acted as a literary critic. Her father was"
"Albert Paine Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humor, and verse. Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and was moved to Bentonsport, Iowa when one year old. From early childhood until early adulthood, Paine lived in the village of Xenia in southern Illinois; here he received his schooling. His home in Xenia is still standing. At the age of twenty, he moved to St. Louis,"
"Tom Cain (author) David Thomas (born 17 January 1959 in Moscow), better known by the pen name Tom Cain, is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels about protagonist Samuel Carver. For the first few years of his life he lived in Moscow and has also lived in Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. Cain spent 25 years as a journalist, working for publications such as ""The Daily Mail"" and ""The Mail on Sunday"". He was mocked in ""Private Eye"" for his frequent contribution to these newspapers, being satirised as ""Daily Thomas of the David Mail"". In"
"February 27, 1839, that lured Twain's father John Marshall Clemens to Hannibal. Twain himself worked on the ""Missouri Courier"", as a ""printer's devil"" in 1849, as he recalled in a 1908 letter to the ""Courier"" editors: Twain's older brother, Orion Clemens, briefly owned the ""Hannibal Journal and Western Union"", 1850-1853, employing Twain as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches. In the ""Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, entry 29 March 1906"", Twain described his life as a printer's apprentice at the office of the ""Hannibal ""Courier"""" (""sic"") and how a fellow apprentice was rebuked for abbreviating ""Jesus"
"Magazine"", and as the author of books such as ""A Modern Instance"" and ""The Rise of Silas Lapham"", Howells exerted a strong opinion and was influential in establishing his theories. Samuel Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up in the Mississippi River frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri. Early 19th-century American writers tended to be flowery, sentimental, or ostentatious—partially because they were still trying to prove that they could write as elegantly as the English. Ernest Hemingway, in ""Green Hills of Africa"", wrote that many Romantics ""wrote like exiled English colonials from an England of"
"Orion Clemens Orion Clemens (1825–1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. He is best known through his relationship to his famed younger brother, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain. Born in Tennessee, Orion Clemens was the oldest of seven children. Four of his six siblings died before reaching the age of twenty, leaving only sister Pamela (1827–1904) and his brother Samuel (1835–1910). In 1839, the Clemens family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a port town on the Mississippi River which was to eventually inspire some of his brother Sam's stories. As"
"radio play known as ""The Einstein Highway"". Maine died on 30 November 1981 in London, England. Charles Eric Maine David McIlwain (21 January 1921 – 30 November 1981) better known by his pen name, Charles Eric Maine, was an English writer best known for several science fiction serials published in the 1950s and 1960s. He also wrote detective thrillers under the pen names Richard Rayner and Robert Wade. Maine was born in Liverpool, England on 21 January 1921. His writing career began with publishing three issues of a science fiction magazine called ""The Satellite"" which he co-edited along with J."
"Olivia Langdon Clemens Olivia Langdon Clemens (November 27, 1845 – June 5, 1904) was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Olivia Langdon was born in 1845 in Elmira, New York, to Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon. Her childhood home from 1847 to 1862 was the building at what is now 413 Lake Street. Jervis was a very wealthy coal businessman. The family was religious, reformist, and abolitionist. Olivia, called Livy, was educated by a combination of home tutoring and classes at Thurston’s Female Seminary and Elmira Female College. Her health was"
"results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. ... The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity towards it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. Twain used different pen names before deciding on ""Mark Twain"". He signed humorous and imaginative sketches as ""Josh"" until 1863. Additionally, he used the pen name ""Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass"" for a series of humorous letters. He maintained that his primary pen name came from his years working on Mississippi riverboats, where two fathoms, a depth indicating water safe for the"
"bill, saying ""I will never sign the death warrant of my people."" Alcoholism was one of the many causes of the already declining population of the native Hawaiians. Growth in travel to the islands increased during Kamehameha's reign. Mark Twain came in March 1866 aboard the ""Ajax"". He stayed for four months under his real name, Samuel Clemens, writing letters back to the Sacramento Union describing the islands. Twain described the king: He was a wise sovereign; he had seen something of the world; he was educated & accomplished, & he tried hard to do well by his people, &"
"may use different pen names for each, sometimes with no attempt to conceal a true identity. Romance writer Nora Roberts writes erotic thrillers under the pen name J. D. Robb (such books are titled ""Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb""); Scots writer Iain Banks wrote mainstream or literary fiction under his own name and published science fiction under Iain M. Banks; Samuel Langhorne Clemens used the aliases Mark Twain and Sieur Louis de Conte for different works. Similarly, an author who writes both fiction and non-fiction (such as the mathematician and fantasy writer Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis"
"1989, he became the youngest ever editor of ""Punch"" magazine, a role he stayed in for three years. Tom Cain (author) David Thomas (born 17 January 1959 in Moscow), better known by the pen name Tom Cain, is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels about protagonist Samuel Carver. For the first few years of his life he lived in Moscow and has also lived in Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. Cain spent 25 years as a journalist, working for publications such as ""The Daily Mail"" and ""The Mail on Sunday"". He was mocked in ""Private"
"be published shortly before her death on November 20, 1962. Clara Clemens Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud, formerly Clara Langhorne Clemens Gabrilowitsch (June 8, 1874 – November 19, 1962), was a daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain. She was a contralto concert singer and, as her father's only surviving child, managed his estate and guarded his legacy after his death. She was married twice—first to Ossip Gabrilowitsch, then (after Gabrilowitsch's death) to Jacques Samossoud. She wrote biographies of Gabrilowitsch and of her father. In her later life she became a Christian Scientist. Clara was the second of three"
"and William E. IV). Emma died from lung cancer in 2003. Written as W.E.B. Griffin W. E. B. Griffin William Edmund Butterworth III (born November 10, 1929), better known by his pen name W. E. B. Griffin, is a writer of military and detective fiction with 38 novels in six series published under that name. He has also published under 11 other pseudonyms and three versions of his real name (W. E. Butterworth, William E. Butterworth, and most recently William E. Butterworth III). Griffin grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. He joined the United States Army in 1946."
"Headsman (comics) Headsman is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His apparent real name is Cleavon Twain (a play on the words ""cleave in twain"") though it's unclear if this is his actual birth name or simply an alias. As a child the Headsman and his brother grew up in the forest, where they used to capture chickens and then kill them for food, by tying them up on a tree trunk and chopping their heads off with an axe. The Headsman had a pet dog that he loved a lot but his brother"
"Anna Kavan Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not only as a nom de plume but as her legal identity. Anna Kavan was born Helen Emily Woods in Cannes, South of France, the only child of a wealthy British family. Her parents travelled frequently and Kavan grew up in Europe and the United States. As an adult she remembered her childhood as lonely and neglected. Her father"
"attention of Pearl Binder (Lady Elwyn Jones), an authority on costume design, who thereafter sought Walker's help in her research on Indian tribal dress, colours, and textiles. Benjamin Walker (author) Benjamin Walker (25 November 1913 – 30 July 2013) was the truncated pen name of George Benjamin Walker, who also wrote under the pseudonym Jivan Bhakar. He was a British citizen, an Indian-born author on religion and philosophy, and an authority on esoterica. He was born in Calcutta (Kolkata), the son of Dr. Simeon Benjamin Walker, M.D., and Mary Emily Fordyce, both of Pune (Poona), India. In some remote dialects,"